Books

Build STEAM skills with quick and purposeful daily practice! Introduce students to year-level STEAM content while encouraging them to develop their creativity and problem-solving skills. This book includes 12 units, broken into manageable daily activities. Each unit includes a STEAM challenge where students use the engineering design process to solve a real-world problem.

You’ll find hundreds of ready-to-use thinking questions on sixteen of the most popular physical science topics such as: astronomy, electricity, force and motion, inventions, matter and energy, simple machines, technology and many more!

Motivate your students to excel with teamwork. You’ll be amazed at how well your students will work in teams. They’ll pay attention, solve problems together, help each other out when a teammate gets stuck and discuss pre-algebra concepts every day!

Students and parents share the excitement of science discovery with simple and safe send-home investigations. Perfect for parental involvement and in-class success. Science investigations are also terrific for the classroom.

Use cooperative learning to teach both science content and process skills. The book includes a complete overview of cooperative learning and structures, cooperative process science and fifteen fantastic step-by-step, hands-on cooperative learning lessons.

This book has ready-to-use cooperative activities and reproducibles for teaching every decimal concept: understanding, reading and writing, comparing and ordering, placing, rounding, estimating, adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, converting decimals into fractions and percentages, and solving real-life decimal problems.

Whether you’re looking for a complete natural science curriculum or want to supplement your curriculum to nurture students’ budding naturalist intelligences, Nurturing the naturalist intelligence: Years 3–8 is your source.

Developing digital detectives offers easy-to-implement lessons for educators to support learners as they become digital detectives, looking for clues, questioning motives, uncovering patterns, developing theories and, ultimately, delivering a verdict.

Quiz-Quiz-Trade is a student favourite! This Kagan structure turns need-to-know numeracy curriculum into a fun and interactive quizzing game. The repeated practice boosts retention of the content.

When it comes to STEM subjects, integration across multiple subject areas, a range of settings and play-based versus traditional learning present opportunities for young learners to engage in age-appropriate online and distance learning. This book features eight creative, integrated STEM lessons, including ideas for designing a zoo, learning to garden, exploring the night sky and more.

Novel engineering, K–8 shows how your students can work through engineering design challenges inspired by a broad range of literature – novels and short stories, biographies and histories, or even picture books. By way of introduction, the book offers clear conceptual background and practical advice on how the approach works: Your students pull information from literature to identify a problem. Then, using details from the story or text, they go through an engineering design process to develop functional solutions for their ‘clients’ – the book’s characters. To support your efforts and bring the concept to life, the book gives you five in-depth case studies featuring the use of novels, a biography and a nonfiction historical text.